London, UK: LeapFrog Investments, the Profit with Purpose investment firm, today releases its latest climate report, The Transition Ledger 2027: From Green Solutions to Climate Deployment. Published ahead of COP31, the collection of essays explores how clean technology, now more economical than fossil-fuel alternatives, can be deployed at speed and scale across emerging markets.

With a foreword by Dominic Barton, Non-Executive Chairman of LeapFrog Investments, the collection brings together a broad range of leaders from investment, industry and academia, each at the forefront of thinking on the climate and energy transition in emerging markets.

This edition makes the case that the question is no longer whether clean technology works, or whether it is cheap, but whether businesses and infrastructure around it can be built fast enough. Contributors and their perspectives include:

• Sumant Sinha, Founder, Chairman and CEO of ReNew, on distributed renewable energy to insulate countries from geopolitical shocks
• Kingsmill Bond, Energy Strategist at Ember, on why the businesses connecting cheap power to demand grids, storage and smart controls stand to capture outsized value.
• Dr Radhika Khosla, Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Oxford, on how excess heat is straining cold chains, grids and household budgets and the role of systems thinking.
• Lisa Sachs, Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, on the business of climate resilience and the role of government to co-create the market.
• Joan M. Larrea, CEO of Convergence Blended Finance, on how blended finance can crowd in private investors at scale for growth markets.
• Nakul Zaveri, Partner and Global Co-Head of LeapFrog’s Climate Investment Strategy, on the compressed timelines of the energy transition and changing dynamics of how investors underwrite risk, returns and holding periods amid unprecedented climate shocks.
• Souleymane Ba, Partner and Global Co-Head of LeapFrog’s Climate Investment Strategy, on the next decade’s work to build businesses that turn cheap clean technology into everyday infrastructure.

Dominic Barton, Non-Executive Chairman of LeapFrog Investments, said: “Reliable and affordable energy is fundamental to economic growth and stronger communities. At LeapFrog, these questions are central to the work Nakul Zaveri and Souleymane Ba are engaged in, particularly in understanding how emerging markets can make the most of the opportunities presented by the energy transition.”

LeapFrog’s latest report builds on the firm’s track record of investing in high-growth companies across Asia and Africa, reaching over 645 million people with healthcare, financial services, and climate solutions. Its climate investment strategy focuses on businesses underpinned by technology and innovation that reduce emissions, enable adaptation, and improve overall system efficiency for emerging consumers and producers.

LeapFrog is the pioneer of Profit with Purpose investing. Founded in 2007, its team has backed and built high growth companies delivering healthcare, financial services and climate solutions that operate across 37 countries. Today, LeapFrog companies reach 645 million people with essential services and grow on average at 22 percent a year. They also finance or protect 33 million emerging enterprises and support 81 million jobs. Through its private equity funds, LeapFrog has raised billions of dollars from institutional investors worldwide and co-created industry champions across global growth markets. The firm has played a foundational role in what is now the $1.6 trillion impact investing industry, collaboratively creating global organisations and standards. LeapFrog was ranked, alongside Apple and Novartis, by Fortune as one of the top five Companies to Change the World.

For more information, go to: www.leapfroginvest.com.

Montfort Communications

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